American Journal of Sociology

Papers
(The TQCC of American Journal of Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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:Sun Ra’s Chicago: Afrofuturism and the City74
Book Reviewers for Volume 13049
Revolution or Incursion? Academic Sociologists and Gender in the 21st Century31
:The Power of Organizations: A New Approach to Organizational Theory25
Ethnography’s Laborious Crossing24
: Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles23
We Need More Data23
: The Economy of Promises: Trust, Power, and Credit in America23
The Coupled Dynamics of Neighborhood and School Change22
What Makes a Decision Fair? Relative Earnings, Gender, and Justifications for Couples’ Decision-Making22
When Truth Trumps Facts: Studies on Partisan Moral Flexibility in American Politics22
Queer Stepfamilies: The Path to Social and Legal Recognition. By Katie L. Acosta. New York: New York University Press, 2021. Pp. x+258. $30.00 (paper).21
Wealth Begins at Home: The Housing Benefits of the 1944 GI Bill and the Reproduction of Black-White Inequality in Homeownership and Home Value21
:Moving the Needle: What Tight Labor Markets Do for the Poor18
Editor's Page18
Review Essay: Young, Gifted, and Black18
:Creative Control: The Ambivalence of Work in the Culture Industries18
:How Civic Action Works: Fighting for Housing in Los Angeles18
:Unsaid: Analyzing Harmful Silences17
:Making Women Pay: Microfinance in Urban India17
:The Immigration Law Death Penalty: Aggravated Felonies, Deportation, and Legal Resistance14
Editor’s Page14
: Play to Submission: Gaming Capitalism in a Tech Firm13
Stimulating (In)equality? The Earnings Penalty in Different-Sex and Female Same-Sex Couples Transitioning to Parenthood in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden13
Locally Ensconced and Globally Integrated: How Network Cohesion and Range Relate to a Language-Based Model of Organizational Identification13
Skill Diversification Beyond High-Paying Jobs13
:On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins13
Intersectional Complexity in Stereotype Content13
Rearranging the Desk Chairs: A Large Randomized Field Experiment on the Effects of Close Contact on Interethnic Relations12
:The Arab Spring Abroad: Diaspora Activism against Authoritarian Regimes12
Black Privilege: Modern Middle-Class Blacks with Credentials and Cash to Spend. By Cassi Pittman Claytor. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2020. Pp. 217. $85.00 (cloth); $26.00 (pap12
:The Holy Vote: Inequality and Anxiety among White Evangelicals12
Contents of Volume 12812
:The Government of Emergency: Vital Systems, Expertise, and the Politics of Security12
Between-Firm Inequality and Informal Social Relations11
Contributors List11
Carceral Passages: Coming of Age in Prison America11
:Indigenous Memory, Urban Reality: Stories of American Indian Relocation and Reclamation11
The Diverging Paths of Black-White Segregation in Urban America, 1970–199011
The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest, and the New Regulations on Homosexuality, 1970–201510
Kinship in Black and White Families: The Strength of Horizontal Ties10
:Making a Scene: Urban Landscapes, Gentrification, and Social Movements in Sweden9
Contents of Volume 1299
:Social Democratic Capitalism9
:The Channels of Student Activism: How the Left and Right Are Winning (and Losing) in Campus Politics Today9
Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes: Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia. By Rustamjon Urinboyev. Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. Pp. xi+169. $34.95 (paper).8
:The Tolls of Uncertainty: How Privilege and the Guilt Gap Shape Unemployment in America8
Postcolonial Reckonings and Arrival8
:Epidemic Orientalism: Race, Capital, and the Governance of Infectious Disease8
:Dispossession and Dissent: Immigrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid7
Changing Women in a Changing Society at 50: A Symposium7
Global Mega-Science: Universities, Research Collaborations, and Knowledge Production7
: Alt-Labor and the New Politics of Workers’ Rights7
:The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture7
Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China7
: Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions6
Acknowledgment to Referees6
:Trapped in a Maze: How Social Control Institutions Drive Family Poverty and Inequality6
Editor's Page6
Slavery’s Carceral Legacy6
:Time for Things: Labor, Leisure, and the Rise of Mass Consumption6
:The Digital Departed: How We Face Death, Commemorate Life, and Chase Virtual Immortality6
(Not) Feeling the Past: Boredom as a Racialized Emotion6
Contributors6
Front Matter6
A Good Reputation: How Residents Fight for an American Barrio5
:Unlivable Lives: Violence and Identity in Transgender Activism5
Exams, Meritocracy, and Disenchantment with the Chinese Dream5
:How Green Became Good: Urbanized Nature and the Making of Cities and Citizens5
: Reunited: Family Separation and Central American Youth Migration5
:Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine5
:Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides under China’s Global Rise5
Contributors4
:Surviving Solitary: Living and Working in Restricted Housing Units4
Race by Law for Asian Americans4
:Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness4
:The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities4
:Normalized Financial Wrongdoing: How Re-regulating Markets Created Risks and Fostered Inequality4
:The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism3
Not in My Gayborhood: Gay Neighborhoods and the Rise of the Vicarious Citizen 3
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Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes: Evidence from Four Post-Soviet Countries3
No Differential Effects of Classroom Ethnic Composition on Native and Immigrant Friendship Segregation: Comment on Smith et al., 20163
:A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities3
Front Matter3
Organizing Penal-Welfare Hybridity: Trauma, Vulnerability, and State Recognition of Crime Victims3
:Soaking the Middle Class: Suburban Inequality and Recovery from Disaster2
:Engaged and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life2
:Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought2
Contents of Volume 1312
The Leniency of Low Expectations: Parental Incarceration, Race, and Teachers’ Evaluations of Student Writing2
The Contagion of Labor: Linking Workplace Copresence and Occupational Mobility Patterns2
:The Souls of White Jokes: How Racist Humor Fuels White Supremacy2
Lesbian, Feminist, and Other Queer Roles: Fifty Years of Inclusion and Exclusion in Sociology2
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets2
Contributors2
Representational Hierarchies in Social Movements: A Case Study of the Undocumented Immigrant Youth Movement2
Front Matter2
:Democracy on the Ground: Local Politics in Latin America’s Left Turn2
: Structured Luck: Downstream Effects of the U.S. Diversity Visa Program2
A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights2
Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia2
:You’re Paid What You’re Worth: And Other Myths of the Modern Economy2
Time Is Money? Wage Premiums and Penalties for Time-Related Occupational Demands1
Market Design as Organizational Problem: Explaining System Failures in Platform Markets1
Contributors1
:Hurricane Harvey’s Aftermath: Place, Race, and Inequality in Disaster Recovery1
Symposium Introductory Images1
Front Matter1
Green American City: Civic Capacity and the Distributed Adoption of Urban Innovations1
Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy. By Fiona Greenland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 257. $105.00 (cloth); $35.00 (paper).1
Deportation’s Fallout: Evidence from Denmark1
:Beyond Doubt: The Secularization of Society1
The Contradictions and Challenges of Feminist Mentoring1
:Medicine at the Margins: EMS Workers in Urban America1
Atlantic Reconstruction: Democracy, Abolition, and the Making of Political Personhood1
:Worldmaking in the Long Great War: How Local and Colonial Struggles Shaped the Modern Middle East1
:Second-Class Daughters: Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery1
From Conflict to Cohesion: Structural Similarity Dampens Uncivil Discourse in Polarized Social Groups1
:Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail1
:Equal Partners? How Dual-Professional Couples Make Career, Relationship, and Family Decisions0
: When Schools Work: Pluralist Politics and Institutional Reform in Los Angeles0
Where the Hood At? Fifty Years of Change in Black Neighborhoods0
Effort Traps: Socially Structured Striving and the Reproduction of Disadvantage0
What Makes a Contact Valuable? Hiring, Organizational Networks and the Advantages of Network Closure0
(Dis)orderly Bodies: Gender Identification and Disability in Social Context0
Gender Bound: Making, Managing, and Navigating Prison Gender Boundaries, 1941–20180
Reach and Retrenchment of the Environmental State: Global Climate Politics in the Amazon Rainforest0
The Control Boom: US Interior Immigration Enforcement, 1971–20100
:Vehicles of Decolonization: Public Transit in the Palestinian West Bank0
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:Scripting the Moves: Culture and Control in a “No-Excuses” Charter School0
:Black Culture, Inc.: How Ethnic Community Support Pays for Corporate America0
: Counterrevolution: The Crusade to Roll Back the Gains of the Civil Rights Movement0
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:Unbottled: The Fight against Plastic Water and for Water Justice0
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Appendix0
Acknowledgments to Referees0
:The Global Rules of Art: The Emergence and Divisions of a Cultural World Economy0
Employment Application Criminal Record Questions and Willingness to Apply: A Mixed Method Study of Self-Selection0
:Whiteness Interrupted: White Teachers and Racial Identity in Predominantly Black Schools0
:Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline0
:Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley0
Channeling Antipartisan Contention: Field Structures and Partisan Strategies in a Global Protest Wave, 2008–20160
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Geographic Isolation, Compelled Mobility, and Everyday Exposure to Neighborhood Racial Composition among Urban Youth0
:Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility0
:The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic0
:Saul Alinsky and the Dilemmas of Race: Community Organizing in the Postwar City0
Racial Discrimination in Context: The Role of Organizational Policies and Practices in Hiring Discrimination0
:Eco-Types: Five Ways of Caring about the Environment0
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:The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth0
:From Chinatown to Every Town: How Chinese Immigrants Have Expanded the Restaurant Business in the United States0
:Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality0
Digital Nomads: In Search of Freedom, Community, and Meaningful Work in the New Economy. By Rachael A. Woldoff and Robert C. Litchfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. Pp. xi+225. $290
:Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India0
:Anonymous: The Performance of Hidden Identities0
:Resurrecting the Jew: Nationalism, Philosemitism, and Poland’s Jewish Revival0
:The Punishment of Pirates: Interpretation and Institutional Order in the Early Modern British Empire0
:Building a Better Chicago: Race and Community Resistance to Urban Redevelopment0
: Late Modernity in Crisis: Why We Need a Theory of Society0
Elaborating Embodied Boundaries: Medical Expertise and (Trans)Gender Classification0
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:Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela: One Hope, Two Realities0
Macro-Micro Interaction in Knowledge Construction: Structural and Communicative Memory in Rwanda and Sierra Leone0
Red and Blue Immigrants: Political (Mis)Alignment, Immigration Attitudes, and the Boundaries of American National Inclusion0
Entrepreneurship as a Response to Labor Market Discrimination for Formerly Incarcerated People0
:A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere and Deliberative Politics0
Walled-In: Arctic Housing and a Sociology of Walls0
:Mosques in the Metropolis: Incivility, Caste, and Contention in Europe0
To Build a Future for Social Theory—What Do We Have to Know about Its Past?0
The Changing Role of Managers0
Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art Is Created and Judged. By Hannah Wohl. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Pp. 223. $90.00 (cloth); $30.00 (paper).0
:Violence of Democracy: Interparty Conflict in South India0
Cross-Cutting Preferences in Interactional Trajectories Toward Violence0
Hostile Environments: State Infrastructural Power and the Exclusion of Unauthorized Migrants in Western Europe0
:The Labor of Hope: Meritocracy and Precarity in Egypt0
:Grandmothering While Black: A Twenty-First-Century Story of Love, Coercion, and Survival0
The Influence of Extended Kin on Educational Achievement: An Examination of Cousin Order and Cousin Group Size0
:The Colors of Love: Multiracial People in Interracial Relationships0
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The Unintended Consequences of Quantifying Quality: Does Ranking School Performance Shape the Geographical Concentration of Advantage?0
:At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis0
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:The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College0
:Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap0
:Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power and Law in Russia0
:Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy0
: Language Brokers: Children of Immigrants Translating Inequality and Belonging for Their Families0
:Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust0
:Believing in South Central: Everyday Islam in the City of Angels0
Advancing Ethnography and Mechanisms of Misinheritance During the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration0
On Settler Colonialism, Its Critics, and Its Critics’ Critics0
Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Party Articulation: Bolivia’s MNR (1952–1964)0
Cultural Heterogeneity in Americans’ Definitions of Racism, Sexism, and Classism: Results from a Mixed-Methods Study0
Noncitizen Justice: The Criminal Case Processing of Non-US Citizens in Texas and California0
:Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation0
:The Quest for Sexual Health: How an Elusive Ideal has Transformed Science, Politics, and Everyday Life0
Title IX, Campus Sexual Misconduct, and the Criminalization of a US Civil Rights Law0
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Migration Studies and Colonialism. By Lucy Mayblin and Joe Turner. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2021. Pp. vi+246. $29.95.0
:Constructing Community: Urban Governance, Development, and Inequality in Boston0
The Shadow of Peasant Past: Seven Generations of Inequality Persistence in Northern Sweden0
Contributors List0
: Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beers0
Competition and Gender Inequality: A Comprehensive Analysis of Effects and Mechanisms0
Who’s Afraid of Sociology?0
:The Spiritual Turn: The Religion of the Heart and the Making of Romantic Liberal Modernity0
Money and Meaning in the Climate Change Debate: Organizational Power, Cultural Resonance, and the Shaping of American Media Discourse0
The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies0
: Agents of God: Boundaries and Authority in Muslim and Christian Schools0
:The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input0
Racial Disparity in Leadership: Evidence of Valuative Bias in the Promotions of National Football League Coaches0
:Mapping the Transnational World: How We Move and Communicate across Borders and Why It Matters0
:Management Divided: Contradictions of Labor Management0
Welfare Drug Bans and Criminal Legal Cycling0
:States of Belonging: Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion0
Contents of Volume 1300
:Practicing Sociology: Tacit Knowledge for the Social Scientific Craft0
: Policing Patients: Treatment and Surveillance on the Frontlines of the Opioid Crisis0
Contributors0
US Dominant Achievement Ideology Fuels Inequality0
Engineering Inequality: Informal Coaching, Glass Walls, and Social Closure in Silicon Valley0
:Claiming Belonging: Muslim American Advocacy in an Era of Islamophobia0
:Green Card Soldier: Between Model Immigrant and Security Threat0
:The Logic of Social Science0
:Genomic Citizenship: The Molecularization of Identity in the Contemporary Middle East0
:The Urban Brain: Mental Health in the Vital City0
:Good News for Common Goods: Multicultural Evangelicalism and Ethical Democracy in America0
How Parents Invest in Their Children’s Cultural Capital Throughout Schooling: Reply0
:Dangerous Fun: The Social Lives of Big Wave Surfers0
:We, Together: The Social Ontology of Us0
Crime Pays the Victim: Criminal Fines, the State, and Victim Compensation Law 1964–19840
The Decline of Global Inequality in the 21st Century: Reconsidering the Industrial Transformation Thesis0
Contributors0
:A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion0
Book Reviewers for Volume 1290
:Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy0
: Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile0
:Getting It, Having It, Keeping It Up: Straight Men’s Sexuality in Public and Private0
:Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment0
Walking the Moral Tightrope: Federal Civil Servants’ Loyalties, Caution, and Resistance under the Trump Administration0
:Urban Specters: The Everyday Harms of Racial Capitalism0
:All the News That’s Fit to Click: How Metrics Are Transforming the Work of Journalists0
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